I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
Clara Barton

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
Anna Quindlen

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
Mary C. Jones

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
Nicolas Malebranche

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.
Lexa Doig

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
James F. Cooper

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
Joseph Epstein

The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.
Bryan Miller

There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.
Fuzzy Zoeller

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
Dorothy Allison

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
Al McGuire

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
Robert Benchley

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.
Lennart Nilsson

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles de Gaulle